Sunday, January 17, 2010

More Interesting Books On The Way...

From Publishers Lunch Weekly...

FICTIONDEBUT:

Kenneth Harmon's BETTER NOT POUT: A Tale of North Pole Noir, in which a hard-boiled elf is framed for murder in a world that plays reindeer games for keeps, to Ben Sevier at Dutton, in a very nice deal, in a pre-empt, by Scott Miller at Trident Media Group.

Tyler McMahon's HOW THE MISTAKES WERE MADE, about the rise and fall of a punk supergroup in Seattle in the early 1990s, narrated by its tough girl drummer, now known notoriously to fans as "the girl who broke up the band," to Hilary Rubin Teeman at St. Martin's, by Jennifer de la Fuente at Fountain Literary (World).

Peter Geye's YOU WILL COME SAFE FROM THE SEA, in which a father and son reconnect thirty-five years after the father survived the tragic wreck of a Great Lakes ore boat, to Greg Michalson at Unbridled Books, by Laura Langlie (world English).

MYSTERY/CRIME:

Lawyer Adam Mitzner's untitled novel, pitched as in the vein of Scott Turow, in which a young New York City criminal defense attorney defends an old family friend who is not what he seems to be, to Ed Schlesinger at Gallery, in a very nice deal, by pre-empt, by Scott Miller at Trident Media Group.

GENERAL/OTHER:

Winner of the 2009 Governor General's Award Kate Pullinger's THE MISTRESS OF NOTHING, based on the true-life story of Lady Duff Gordon and her maid in nineteenth-century Egypt, to Danielle Friedman at Touchstone Fireside, by Anne McDermid at Anne McDermid Associates.

Dominic Smith's AMBER AND GLASS, which takes place in the final years of the 19th century amid Chicago skyscrapers and far-flung Pacific islands - and sets two young men and their cultures on a collision course, to Sarah Branham at Atria, by Wendy Weil at the Wendy Weil Agency.

Francesco Pacifico's THE STORY OF MY PURITY, the first translated novel by this Italian youth sensation, about an ultramontane, unhappily married Roman intellectual who falls under the spell of Jews, gays, MDMA, and beautiful women in nightclub (not exactly in that order), to Lorin Stein at Farrar, Straus, for publication in Winter 2012, by Anna Stein at Aitken Alexander on behalf of Kylee Doust (World English).

NYT bestselling author of COLD Bill Streever's HEAT, in which the author explores the science, history, and culture behind warmth, in an adventurous narrative that tackles fire walking, fever, thermonuclear weapons, the invention of matches, and much more, again to John Parsley at Little, Brown, by Elizabeth Wales at Wales Literary Agency (World).Arthur Fleischmann with Carly Fleischmann's MY NAME IS CARLY: A Girl Discovers Her Voice, the story of a severely autistic child, diagnosed as mentally deficient, declared unreachable, and described as "a modern day Helen Keller," who was unable to control her impulses, sleep through the night, or communicate at all until she began typing messages to her parents on the computer, conveying to the world how it feels to be "locked in" and revealing her superior intellect, wit and determination to be an advocate for those like her told by her dad and interspersed with Carly's own writings, to Trish Todd at Touchstone Fireside, for publication in 2012, by Linda Loewenthal of the David Black Literary Agency (World).

Arthur Fleischmann with Carly Fleischmann's MY NAME IS CARLY: A Girl Discovers Her Voice, the story of a severely autistic child, diagnosed as mentally deficient, declared unreachable, and described as "a modern day Helen Keller," who was unable to control her impulses, sleep through the night, or communicate at all until she began typing messages to her parents on the computer, conveying to the world how it feels to be "locked in" and revealing her superior intellect, wit and determination to be an advocate for those like her told by her dad and interspersed with Carly's own writings, to Trish Todd at Touchstone Fireside, for publication in 2012, by Linda Loewenthal of the David Black Literary Agency (World).

CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT:

Amy Huntington's SLEEPWALKING, centering around an American teenager attempting to rebuild her shattered life after the death of her parents, to Tara Weikum at Harper Children's, in a pre-empt, in a three-book deal, for publication in Summer 2011, 2012, 2013, by Stacey Glick at Dystel & Goderich Literary Management (World English).Translation: labramo@dystel.com

HISTORY/POLITICS/CURRENT AFFAIRS:

Eric Rutkow's OUT OF THE WOODS: How Trees Shaped America and America Shaped Trees, about how a land of "mightie greate wooddes" (according to an early explorer) grew into a great nation in no small part because of those very woods, showing how from birth to expansion to industrialization, in peacetime and in war, through ages of razing and clearing and conserving and preserving, trees have shaped the United States, and how, in turn, the people of America - settlers, explorers, builders, consumers, protectors, and scholars - have shaped trees just as surely, to Colin Harrison at Scribner, by Eric Simonoff and Eric Lupfer at William Morris Endeavor (NA).

Freelance journalist (GQ, The Atlantic, Harper's, Time) Peter Savodnik's THE INTERLOPER: LEE HARVEY OSWALD INSIDE THE SOVIET PERPLEX, a carefully reported historical account of the two-and-a-half years JFK's assassin spent in the Soviet Union, showing that he was a tragic man in search of stability and meaning, whose experience reflected powerful emotional and political currents already coursing through the American consciousness, to Lara Heimert at Basic, in a very nice deal, by Ted Weinstein at Ted Weinstein Literary Management (World English).

REFERENCE:

NYT bestseller BUY KETCHUP IN MAY AND FLY AT NOON author Mark Di Vincenzo's THERE'S WOOD IN YOUR TURKEY BACON: And 333 Other Fascinating Facts That Will Make You Smarter, Safer and Healthier, to Kate Nintzel at Harper, in a very nice deal, by Michelle Wolfson at Wolfson Literary Agency (World).

2 comments:

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